Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Significant increase of global anomalous moisture uptake feeding landfalling Atmospheric Rivers

  • Iago Algarra,
  • Raquel Nieto,
  • Alexandre M. Ramos,
  • Jorge Eiras-Barca,
  • Ricardo M. Trigo,
  • Luis Gimeno

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18876-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Increasing atmospheric temperatures are expected to have various impacts on the global water cycle. Here, the authors show that there is an intensification of atmospheric rivers, that causes enhanced evapotranspiration and thus atmospheric moisture uptake in many regions of the world.